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Photojournalists can’t rely on elaborate lighting equipment or Photoshop to craft award-winning shots. Instead, they must wait for the crucial moment when all elements of their photographic story come together. Every day they are challenged to combine context and aesthetic to tell a visual tale. In this video, photographers from the 2013 Pictures of the […]
Professional photographer James Brandon spent the last few years developing 80 Lightroom presets that are included in this wide-ranging bundle designed for various photography genres and post-processing needs. They can be found here: Lightroom 4&5 Preset Bundle All these presets are fully customizable after being applied to a photo with one click and often serve […]
Bringing your other interests to your photography can create a niche that makes your work stand out from the masses. Jonathan Mehring of Skateboarder Magazine has combined his love of photography with his passion for skateboarding and travel to sculpt out a unique career for himself. One of his goals is to bring skateboarding to […]
Today, we often take digital cameras for granted. We can adjust our ISO, view our images, and focus the lens all with the touch of a button. There are many who struggled to make the change from film to digital, but once they saw the conveniences it provided, most converted. One who did not is […]
The goal of this tutorial is to help photographers prepare digital images either originated by scanned film or digital capture for printing purposes. The main focus will be directed at printing by a professional service since they typically produce the best results in contrast to home printing. For those just venturing into professional quality printing there’s a lot […]
Leading lines are lines within an image that leads the viewer’s eye to another point in the image (often the main subject), or occasionally, out of the image. Anything with a definite line can be a leading line. Roads, bridges, trees even a shoreline can lead the eye. Leading lines work very well when combined […]
In today’s digital world the art of photography is taking a serious hit. With the introduction of DSLR cameras and the instant gratification they provide, many modern day photographers have little, if any experience, with the original methods of capturing an image. As sad as this may seem, there still is hope. There is a […]
Blazing sun in the middle of the day is not the kind of light source that photographers dream of. The high, harsh light casts dark, unflattering shadows on subjects. Most photographers avoid scheduling photo shoots during these un-golden hours. But sometimes there’s no other choice, and the photographer must work with the conditions at hand. […]
Photo shoots don’t always involve planning. Sometimes inspiration strikes on a whim. Eric Kim, a street photographer based in Los Angeles, used a GoPro mounted on top of his Ricoh GRD V compact camera to document and share an impromptu environmental portrait session with a stranger. Kim was visiting New York and was inspired, after […]
Like many disgruntled ink jet printer users, Pro photographer Ron Martinsen had almost given up on getting good quality prints. He found himself averaging about $50 per 4×6 print when you account for all of the clogged print heads, discarded printers, wasted paper, and ink costs. But through much research and in collaboration with Canon, […]
